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Onyeka Akumah on Travelbeta, e-commerce and Nigeria's tech space [Q&A]
[Paul Adepoju] The first time I heard about Travelbeta launch by Onyeka Akumah was in July 2015 at the official launch of HouseMax in Lagos. Akumah described the platform as one that would totally transform the travel space in Africa... read


Banking & Finance
Shoprite sales stall due to 'price war'

Charlotte Mathews

Food and household goods retail chain Shoprite Holdings, which owns brands including Shoprite, Checkers, Usave and OK Furniture, showed muted growth in the six months to December as South African consumers came under pressure and competition among supermarket chains intensified... read
Alarming number of online payment services not secure
A global study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International reveals that 33% of financial services organisations don't offer customers a secure channel for all their online payments... read
Manufacturing
SA November manufacturing production down 1% y/y
Manufacturing output contracted year on year in November last year, although the pace of contraction was lower than that recorded in October... read
Retailers
Cashbuild revenue surges 15% as expansion pays off

Mark Allix

Building material retailer Cashbuild jumped 8.3% on Tuesday after saying its December quarter revenue had grown 15% from the matching period in 2014. Its revenue over six months was 14% higher than in the previous year... read
Shoprite H1 SA sales up 7.2%
Shoprite Holdings (SHP) increased turnover by 8.8% from R57.5bn to about R62.5bn in the six months to December 2015, the company said in an operational update on Tuesday... read
International
Unilever to begin Cuba operations in 2017
HAVANA - Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever will begin operations in Cuba in 2017 after communist officials authorized a joint venture with state firm Intersuchel, they said Monday... read
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Business
Branding lessons learned from religion (Part 2)

Jimmy Tembo

We went through part 1 of this article without defining branding... read
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